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Jul 11, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
UMC provides foundry working experience for new graduate to explore process technology, design support, and customer support.
Cons
UMC is 2nd tier foundry and the top management team is 2nd class executives who don't have good strategy. Their strategy is to match TSMC process technology. Their existence is to provide another competition for fabless company such that they have alternative to negotiate price with TSMC. Their business will be very subject to the business cycle of semiconductor industry.